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Through an empirical inquiry into three categories of offending women, Offending Women in Contemporary China: Gender and Pathways into Crime explores the socioeconomic conditions that facilitate womens´ pathways into crime, and examines the interplay between gender, class, rapid social changes and female law-breaking in neoliberal China.

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1. Offending Women in Contemporary China: An Introduction 2. Researching Chinese Female Offenders: The Methodology 3. Female Members of ´Black-Society Style´ Criminal Organisations 4. Female Offenders Who Organised Others for Prostitution 5. Female Child Traffickers

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Anqi Shen is a Lecturer in Law and Policing at Teesside University. She previously worked in China as a criminal justice professional and then a qualified lawyer in a Nanjing law firm.

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